Helpful Score: 2
A very good instructional and reference book. Offers a variety of ways to do toe shaping, heel shaping, ribbing, cast on and off, increase and decrease, etc. Photographs illustrate the techniques, and they do a good job. Occasionally a drawing probably would have done the job better. Overall a very successful book.
Here's a review I copied from Booklist:
Why more publishers, even businesses, don't adopt more pictorial ways to communicate (other than PowerPoint) is a mystery. After all, visual learning, step-by-step, accompanied by clear, up-close photographs and directions, is one of the best methods to retain information, which is precisely the point and success of the Teach Yourself Visually series. This series volume focuses on sock knitting. Chau immediately dismisses any reader misgivings by deconstructing every step, beginning with selecting the right yarn and ending with the care and repair of handmade socks. Content varies from simple to complex; the author details three different methods of sock construction--top down, flat, toe-up--then expands readers' experiences with additional patterns, whether angora baby booties or cabled cuff socks. There is a follow-up chapter on troubleshooting to fix such mistakes as dropped or twisted stitches. Boxed tips throughout the text provide "professional" hints to turn a perceived difficult task into a relaxing hobby. --Barbara Jacobs
Here's a review I copied from Booklist:
Why more publishers, even businesses, don't adopt more pictorial ways to communicate (other than PowerPoint) is a mystery. After all, visual learning, step-by-step, accompanied by clear, up-close photographs and directions, is one of the best methods to retain information, which is precisely the point and success of the Teach Yourself Visually series. This series volume focuses on sock knitting. Chau immediately dismisses any reader misgivings by deconstructing every step, beginning with selecting the right yarn and ending with the care and repair of handmade socks. Content varies from simple to complex; the author details three different methods of sock construction--top down, flat, toe-up--then expands readers' experiences with additional patterns, whether angora baby booties or cabled cuff socks. There is a follow-up chapter on troubleshooting to fix such mistakes as dropped or twisted stitches. Boxed tips throughout the text provide "professional" hints to turn a perceived difficult task into a relaxing hobby. --Barbara Jacobs
